maasai mara - many moons later

November 24 - 26

Sorry it’s taken me decades to write this blog post. We left for Maasai Mara on the 24^th of November (I know, I know…it’s January now) and were there until that Friday, the 26^th. The road was long and bumpy, and, unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you see it, I had washed some underwear the night before…the unfortunate part is that it wasn’t all together dry. So I dried it out the window of the bus. Yeah.

haha

We stayed at the Sarova Mara Tented Camp – where we stayed in “tents,” which were essentially hotel rooms that had tents over them. We had a bathroom, three beds, a dresser, and a desk. So I wouldn’t exactly call it “tented camping!” Absolutely beautiful, though. We went on four game drives – two night drives (on Wednesday and Thursday evening) and two morning game drives (on Thursday and Friday morning). Here are some things we saw!

roseanne, amelia and emily in the van

punda milia (zebra; literal translation - "striped horse")

wild buffalo

guinea fowl

look how close we were to this guy,

only about 5 ft. away!

sleeping

the king

elephant mama and baby!

beautiful view across the mara

two cuties i was snapping pictures of in

the Maasai Village we visited

baby cheetahs are so cute

cheetah babies all in a row!

It was a wonderful wonderful trip! And thanks to Lillian and Roseanne, we celebrated Thanksgiving on Thursday evening with a delicious meal prepared specially for us by the hotel staff, and wine and champagne which was given to us by Lillian and Roseanne. How nice!!

Coming soon: OUR TRIP!!! It was a magical, awesome, exciting three weeks and I can’t wait to share it with you all. Will post as soon as I can.

-me